Concatenate object property with string in hautelook/AliceBundle

Question

I'm using Alice in a Symfony 2 bundle to load fixtures. I'm trying to customize the name of an entity using the name of a parent entity. Specifically, I have an entity, @Report1, whose @Report1->name property returns Test Report 1.

I'm trying to create a child entity with the name Test Report 1 Scenario 1. Here's my fixture file snippet:

AppBundle\Entity\Scenario:
  Scenario1:
    report_id: @Report1->id
    name: @Report1->name 'Scenario 1'

All I get back is the literal @Report1->name 'Scenario 1'.

If I remove the 'Scenario 1' string from thename: property, I get the parent report's actual name.

Answer 1

Another option that worked for me was using sprintf:

App\Entity\User:
  users{1..150}:
    firstname: '<firstname()>'
    lastname: '<lastname()>'
    email: '<sprintf("%s.%[email protected]", @self->firstname, @self->lastname)>'